Something New

Kenya McQueen is a corporate lawyer whose professional life is in order while her personal life is not. Pressured by family expectations and her own picture of the right partner, she reluctantly agrees to a blind date arranged by a colleague and meets Brian Kelly, a white landscape architect whose easygoing manner is far from what she had in mind. When he later takes on work at her garden, the two grow close, but the arrival of Mark Harper, a successful Black attorney who fits the plan she and her family had settled on, forces her to weigh the relationship others expect against the one she did not see coming.

Something New was released in 2006 and runs 99 minutes. It is a romantic comedy-drama from the United States, produced by Universal Pictures, Focus Features and Gramercy Pictures, with a screenplay by Kriss Turner and Stephanie Allain producing. Sanaa Lathan plays Kenya, Simon Baker plays Brian and Blair Underwood plays Mark, with Wendy Raquel Robinson, Taraji P. Henson and Golden Brooks among a credited cast of 27. It was the first feature directed by Sanaa Hamri, who went on to make The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, Just Wright and Lovestruck: The Musical.

The film took in about 11 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a critics' rating of 6 out of 10 from 109 reviews, while on TMDB it has a rating of 6.4 out of 10 from 266 votes, indicating a modest but similar reception from both critics and audiences.